Word: footwork
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From Long Island to Long Beach, hundreds of big & little campaigns to raise money for the public welfare got under way last week. As usual, whole-souled armies of volunteers were doing local bell-ringing, buttonholing footwork. And as usual, many of the amateurs were being guided from afar. The guide: one of the dozen or so professional fund-raising firms whose business it is to put system into benevolence...
...into Sidney Hillman's P.A.C. last week, searching for some legal misstep which would give the committee a chance to crack down hard. But after diligent search through the woodpile, all they found was Sidney Hillman. And in him, they discovered, they had caught a Tartar. His political footwork made most of them look like stumblebums...
Headache to Come? Wall Streeters viewed Sinco's latest fast financial footwork as a slick scheme to get a big raise in salary, while avoiding the enormous top-bracket taxes. By the stock deal he can increase his long-term capital gains, which are taxable at only 25%. Right off, he will net a profit of more than $30,000 in dividends (at the present rate), above the 3% interest he will pay the corporation on the unbought amount...
...great Negro fighter Henry Armstrong saluted the ability of Keith Nuttall, a boxer of Brigham City, Utah, who is just 13 years old. Last week, as usual, blond, handsomely babyfaced, mild-mannered young Keith was appearing in exhibition bouts in his home neighborhood. He was fast, brilliant in his footwork, a cunning boxer, and punched so hard that he had to have his hands taped. He has been fighting for two years now-two or three bouts nearly every week...
Battle of Boots. The guerrillas have few trucks and armored cars, have to make up the lack with bravery and footwork. In the ice and cold of the Balkan winter they need, first of all, good shoes. That is why, rear Lipovac in Western Bosnia, shoeless Partisans attacked a column of 400 lorries transporting German reinforcements, hit them fast and hard, then withdrew to the snowy mountains. Hundreds of Partisans at last had shoes, taken from Hitler's hated soldiers...